About Taryn
Taryn Santos is a licensed mental health counselor with 11 years of clinical experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people through hard life moments like stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, and she aims to create a space where people can be heard and begin to heal.
Taryn draws on a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy.
How Taryn works
She uses practical skills and simple exercises to help people manage strong emotions and make changes that matter. Sessions move at a steady, manageable pace and center on what the person wants to work on. Clients can expect straightforward conversation and collaborative problem solving.
Taryn pays attention to family of origin issues, relationship patterns, parenting challenges, and the impact of trauma and abuse. She also helps with issues such as addiction, divorce and separation, and feelings of emptiness or guilt. <brHer work is informed by personal faith, which she may bring into conversations when clients want that perspective.
The focus is on building resilience, improving communication, and finding clearer direction during transitions. Practical tools and regular check-ins guide progress. Taryn offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
She provides a calm presence for people who need steady support while navigating change or recovery.
Taryn lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Taryn works with
The areas below are the ones Taryn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and finding direction during life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and building practical skills to change behavior and mood, which helps with depression, anxiety, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and coping with relational wounds.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. From there she adapts techniques and tools to fit the individual's needs in a collaborative way.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Text and chat options make it easy to keep momentum between sessions or check in on coping skills. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life circumstances.
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